What? An All-You-Can-Eat Dim Sum Buffet? Uhh…

A few weeks ago, I went down to Saigon to get my food fix. I realized I hadn’t eaten Chinese food in a while, nor had I been in Cholon (the Chinese-Vietnamese area where I used to live during my study abroad) in quite some time.

So, Spencer and I went to the best Chinese restaurant in Saigon, which was oddly enough located in the Windsor (5-Star) Hotel. Once we arrived, angels greeted us with an opportunity of a lifetime: an all-you-can-eat dim sum buffet for 110,000 dong. That’s a little more than $6 USD.

I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced such a thing, but it’s basically like holding a piece of paper, closing your eyes, and making check marks as if you were sketching a field of grass.

These are all of the dishes we called between the two of us- and surprisingly, we managed to destroy pretty much all of them. I don’t know the names of most of the dishes, so you’re just going to have to deal with that pain.

Also, funny, ironic coincidence happened: I only had one day in Saigon before I went to Cambodia, and so I called up my friend Tyler to see if we could meet up. He said he had to work though, and if I wanted to- I could meet up with him in a far-away district for lunch. Spencer and I basically headed straight to the Chinese restaurant right after we got off the plane, so I figured I wouldn’t catch him in time for lunch. After about a week, I came back to Saigon (from Cambodia), and met up with Tyler for drinks before heading back up to Hue. He told me got this new job a few weeks ago as an English grammar proofreader for a 5-star hotel. He was working at the Windsor Hotel, where we ate the dim sum buffet the week before. He was probably on the same floor as us.

Weird.

Seriously, you can find any delicious international food in Saigon. This Korean restaurant had some pretty good bi bim bop.

bi bim bop.

And in case you were wondering, this is what Saigon looks like from the top of the Windsor Hotel. Now you can live on with your life with this question finally answered. Rest well tonight, friend.